Rod Parsley: The Devil Stole $3 Million Dollars. Help Me Get it Back!
- Posted on December 28, 2009
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TV Evangelist Rod Parsley (from my home state of Columbus) is asking for a financial miracle before December 31. Rod is asking people to "help me take back what the devil stole?" The appeal said that there was a $3 million dollar deficit even after cutting the budget 30% during the year.
This isn't a big story. I mean, a lot of TV evangelists make big pleas for funds. They have for years.
What is interesting in this story, according to the Columbus Dispatch, is that Parsley's church settled for $3.1 million this year with a family whose son was spanked at its day-care center in 2006, to the point his buttocks and legs were covered with welts and abrasions.
According to a statement by the church: "The decision imposed against us earlier this year has made our circumstances more serious." I'm sure it did.
But if this $3 million is the same $3 million that Parsley is asking for because the devil stole it from them... that sure makes for a different scenario.
(If I was a betting man, I would guess that the $3 million was an insurance claim against the church rather than coming straight from the church coffers).
Here's my read: the day of the big TV evangelists is over. It could be that the $3 million dollars wasn't actually stolen by Satan. It could be that people are waking up and finding that their money is better when not placed in the hands of a TV evangelist.
What's YOUR read?
Todd
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Matthew Rathbun on Fri, January 01, 2010
I don’t think I can find any single modern day action that has harmed the church’s mission more than the “TV Evangelist”
Seriously? “The devil stole my money”? How about “God is telling you to live withing your means, like everyone else”?
CaroleTurner on Mon, January 04, 2010
I was there, sitting in the congregation on February 21st 1988 when Jimmy Swaggart cried and confessed to having sinned before God. I would have sworn after that couple years of Jim Baker, Marvin Gorman and others falling, that certainly THAT was the end of the TV Evangelist. They will ALWAYS be here. It’s an awful sad reality.
Les Robinson on Mon, January 25, 2010
Well I’m a Brit (but without the bad teeth)
We don’t have the same level of scam artists over here as you guys do..
But it’s not Parsley and his other 40 thieves that worries me…money is money..
What is absolutely criminal is when they say ‘Dont seek out a Doctor etc..put your faith in our little green prayer cloth’
Yeah..LIKE that will cure you..
And dont even get me started on that shyster Benny Hinn..
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